This is a long, kind of weird, chapter.
Winston goes to the prole part of town, where he asks an old man at a pub about the before times. He doesn't do a great job of asking questions, and the old man does a worse job of answering. He gets upset, leaves, and goes to the antique store he got the diary in. The guy there is happy to tell him about the before times, but Winston seems less excited then you'd expect. He's interested, to be sure, but he just freaked out on someone for not doing the same thing this guy is doing and he's not that into it.
Blah blah women hating.
He sees the "young and lusty" woman and fantasizes about killing her again (no rape this time).
WIP, FIS, IIS count: 3
I feel like you could cut most of the old man (and a good chunk of the antique shop) and this chapter would work just as well.
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